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  • The Dark Fantastic: 12 Short Screenplays by Lee McQueen book cover
  • The Dark Fantastic: 12 Short Screenplays by Lee McQueen book cover
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The Dark Fantastic: 12 Short Screenplays

by Lee McQueen

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Twelve speculative scripts shaped by horror, crime, history, and social struggle

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Twelve speculative scripts shaped by horror, crime, history, and social struggle

Lee McQueen’s collection gathers 12 short, screen-ready pieces that use dark fantasy, horror, and adventure to approach subjects including family secrets, the legacy of the slave trade, trafficking, addiction, incarceration, the drug war, and control of solar energy. The scenarios move between intimate danger and larger systems of exploitation or power, framing speculative premises as extensions of possible worlds. With substantial dialogue and monologue material, the book also functions as a script resource: its pieces can be considered individually for performance, classroom discussion, or screen development alongside being read as a collection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Afrofuturism and speculative fiction with socially grounded premises
  • Drama students, teachers, and actors seeking monologues and dialogue scenes
  • Screenwriters, producers, and directors exploring short screenplay formats

Themes

Family secretsHistorical traumaHuman traffickingAddiction and incarcerationPower and exploitation

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Book overview

A teenager desires to discover the solution to her family's secrets before she becomes another victim. A horror tale reveals the unspeakable-that not only women got raped during the slave trade. A former gang member joins a Christian mission to free trafficked women, but is captured herself. A reversal of fortune finally brings a rage-filled alcoholic her heart's true desire. An ex-offender and parole violator stops the Drug War. A restless crime lord shows his colleagues precisely how to control the solar energy industry. These twelve screen-ready tales of dark fantasy, horror, and adventure reflect possible rather than impossible worlds. Great stories for lovers of afro-futurism, speculative fiction. Plenty of monologues and dialogues for drama students and teachers, actors, screenwriters, producers, and directors.
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